Also, on Wednesday we will meet at the Archives and Special Collections room of JFK Library, where Dr. Charlie Mutschler will give us a tour of items that will be relevant to quite a few of you.
Assignments:
- Get Flickr, YouTube, Picasa and Google Plus accounts
- Flickr roundup:
- Familiarize yourselves with Flickr Commons and Creative Commons. What are they?
- Explore some of the Flickr Commons Institutions. In particular check out the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Do they have any materials relevant to yor topic? What is their copyright policy?
- Five Ways Museums are Using Flickr
- Curate the Commons
- Play around at the official Flickr blog for examples of museums, archives and historic sites doing interesting things with the tool. The search bar on the left may be useful.
- YouTube Roundup
- Search for interesting museums, archives, National Historic Sites, and other heritage organization on YouTube. Show us what you find.
- Five Ways for Museums to Use YouTube
- Beyond Launch: Museum Videos on YouTube
- Picasa Roundup
- I Have Discovered the Purpose of Google Plus! (Despite this title this short article compares Flickr to Picasa, Google's photo app.)
- Google Plus Roundup
- experiment with the hangout feature--really the only useful part of G+!
- Google+ at Two Years: An Assessment
- Also, create a preliminary bibliography for your stops, divided into primary sources, secondary sources, and media. Post it on your blog.
